All News articles – Page 1525
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Immigration
Leave to enter – Entry clearance – Spouses of British nationals – Claimant foreign nationals married to British nationals R (on the application of Kotecha) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (on the application Das) v ...
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Personal injury
Damages - Pain, suffering and loss of amenities - Liability admitted - Assessment of damages Whiten (by his litigation friend, Nowell) v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust: QBD (Mr Justice Swift): 5 August 2011 ...
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'Maturity' is key when sentencing young people
Courts should pay more attention to a young person’s ‘maturity’ and less to their age when making sentencing decisions, a report by two criminal justice groups has recommended. A research paper by the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance and the Criminal Justice Alliance has called on ...
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Law Society runs SafetyNet PII scheme
The Law Society has revealed that it will again offer help for firms having difficulty in securing professional indemnity insurance. The SafetyNet scheme will assist law firms trying to avoid entering the assigned risks pool or help those who want to leave it. ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Possession of firearm with intent to cause fear of violence R v Weaver: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Justice Laws, Mr Justice Openshaw and Mr Justice Hickinbottom (judgment delivered extempore): 5 August 2011 ...
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Terminal verbosity
Obiter was amused by a discussion posted on the Gazette’s LinkedIn group by solicitor David Lewis, entitled ‘What annoys me about other lawyers’. Lewis bemoans his peers’ verbosity, writing ‘pursuant to’ or ‘under the provisions of’ instead of ‘under’, and ‘in respect of’ instead of ‘for’. ...
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Court clerk first to be prosecuted under Bribery Act
A London magistrates’ court employee has become the first person to be prosecuted under the new Bribery Act, the Crown Prosecution Service said today. Munir Yakub Patel, an administrative clerk at Redbridge Magistrates’ Court in Ilford, London, faces a charge under Section 2 of the 2010 ...
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LSC transfers all Immigration Advisory Service cases
All cases on the books of the collapsed Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) have been transferred to alternative providers, the Legal Services Commission has said. The commission is also continuing the process of reallocating IAS’s unused new matter starts, carrying out a ‘mini tender’ in some ...
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Are claimant lawyers winning the argument on recoverability?
With the Civil Justice Council having just set up a working party to implement the Jackson reforms, one could be forgiven for assuming that the government’s plans to shake up civil litigation costs are a done deal by now. But of course the Legal Aid, Sentencing ...
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Experts’ liability should be welcomed
One of the key recommendations of the Walker reforms of 2009 was to increase the responsibilities of non-executive directors. The reforms proposed that NEDs should spend up to 50% more time in their roles and have a far greater understanding of the business below board level enabling them to challenge ...
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HMRC and mortgage lenders launch verification scheme
A new mortgage verification scheme to help combat mortgage fraud will be launched on 1 September. HM Revenue & Customs, the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the Building Societies Association have worked together on the scheme, which was announced in the March 2010 budget. ...
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Court of Appeal judge admits motoring offence
A Court of Appeal Judge has lost his licence for 56 days after speeding through a red light - his fourth motoring offence in eighteen months. Sir Mathew Thorpe (pictured), 73, could have been disqualified for six months, but convinced District Judge Daphne Wickham that this ...
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What is the right punishment for child offenders?
The 11-year-old rioter sidles up beside you. ‘Pssst,’ he says, looking shifty. He indicates the bulge beneath his tracksuit top. ‘Wanna buy a waste paper basket?’ Yes, I know it’s no laughing matter. That child is a thief and, in this country at least, is ...